Liberal arts students believe that most of them have a sense of "great liberal arts". The so-called "great liberal arts" can be understood as "literature, history and philosophy" without separation of families. In fact, in the history of our country, many historical events have been popularized in the folk through literary channels, and many allusions and even creative themes in literature come from history.
In the history of literature, there have been such allusions: a woman chaos three Cao. This allusion should start from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The situation at the end of the Han Dynasty
As soon as the Han Ling Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty died, the Han Dynasty government fell into a state of chaos. Previously, the Eastern Han Dynasty was attacked by the Yellow Turban Rebels, and the Han Ling Emperor chose to delegate power to the local government in order to reduce the burden on the imperial court. The sequelae of all this began to break out throughout the Eastern Han Dynasty as soon as Emperor Ling of Han died. The Court of the Eastern Han Dynasty then survived in name only, so that the Tianzi of the Han Family once fell into the folk, no different from the life of a beggar.
The court was nihilistic, and warlords were constantly annexing. During this period, Cao Cao welcomed back Emperor Xian of Han, reorganized the imperial court, and began a merger war with Yuan Shao, the most powerful warlord in the northern region.
Yuan Shao's comprehensive strength can theoretically crush Cao Cao - because of the advantages in hardware, in addition to Cao Cao's empty Tianzi Emperor Xiandi, the rest of the advantages, Yuan Shao has everything.
But fortunately, Yuan Shao was incompetent and self-conscious. In the end, in the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao was severely damaged by Cao Cao, and the new order in the Central Plains, after this great war, was laid.
Three Cao father and son
In the history of Chinese politics, Cao Cao and Cao Pi father and son are outstanding politicians, and in the history of literature, the emergence of the father and son of the three Cao Cao has also played an epoch-making significance for the development of Chinese literature. While the father and son of Sancao themselves left many exquisite poetic works for future generations, Cao Cao also gathered the literati of the Central Plains to form the "YixiaRen Group", which summarized the literature of the late Han Dynasty and played a foundation for Wei and Jin literature.
Sancao father and son have the attributes of literati, and literati are often linked to the wind flow, so because of this, the father and son of the three Cao have a lot of seemingly innocent affairs, of which "one woman chaos and three Caos" is one of the representative events.
A woman messes up three Cao
The so-called first daughter refers to zhen.
Zhen was originally Yuan Shao's daughter-in-law. After Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao's forces, Zhen was captured by Cao Jun. Cao Pi fell in love with Zhen at first sight and planned to marry Zhen.
It is said that Cao Cao also fell in love with Zhen at first sight and wanted to take it for himself. But before he could take a stand, Cao Pi had already put forward his own ideas first. This made Cao Cao have to dispel his idea. However, the father and son both look at a woman at the same time, and this kind of peach-colored news can hardly attract people's attention - just like the matter of Tang Xuanzong's forced marriage of his daughter-in-law in later generations often became the talk of future generations.
Cao Pi became empress dowager and gradually snubbed Zhen, but Cao Pi's younger brother Cao Zhi had a non-divisional thought about Zhen's sister-in-law, and also wrote "Roselle Endowment" to express his feelings.
Cao Cao's father and son, because of the Zhen family and the development of unrequited love, were criticized by later generations, which is the famous one-daughter chaos three Cao.